The coinage of Vijayanagar and the later successor state of Mysore is relatively unique among Indian coin series in that a number of coin types have close sculptural parallels. In this brief paper, I will point out a few of these, using two specific cases, reliefs of Hanumān and the gold varāhas of Hari Hara I and Bukka I, and the statue of Bālakṛṣṇa from the Kṛṣṇa Temple in Hampi and the Bālak...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Background Abortion induced by physical trauma has a long history. This article describes bas-relief sculptures in Angkor Wat, Cambodia dating from the 9th to the 12th centuries, and compares them to contemporary observations of massage abortion. The Cambodian carvings, along with two similar representations in Indonesia, are the earliest known...

The Torralba and Ambrona sites (Santonja et al., in: Santonja and Pérez-González, 2005 (eds.): 18-39) are 150 kilometres north east of Madrid on the watershed between the Ebro, Duero and Tagus Rivers, in the southern part of Soria Province. This is a strategic transit zone between the highlands of the Iberian Meseta (plateau) and the Jalón River Valley. An oblique perspective generated by a dig...

we arrived we were met by the Warden of the Nurses Home who showed us our rooms and gave us our keys. We were soon to realise how important her keys are to a nurse in such a hospital. The day nurses were coming off, and the night nurses going on duty, and we had the system of duties explained to us. In this hospital the majority of the nurses were assigned to a particular Ward for at least a mo...

Considered as topographic reliefs, grayscale images can be decomposed into a number of peaks that can be stored in the data structure of a tree. This decomposition is called the peak analysis of grayscale images in this paper. Its mathematical definition and its fast algorithm based on the watershed transform are both presented. Due to its intuitive definition, there is a wide range of applicat...

A new experimental method aiming to the characterization of self-affine rough surfaces is presented. Based on a three dimensional reconstruction of the relief from stereo pairs obtained with a scanning electron microscope, it allows a non-destructive quantitative analysis of fracture surfaces, with a xy and z resolution only slightly lower than the original images. The roughness index of the fr...

One of the most striking of the Hellenistic pottery fabrics has not come to the notice of Bulletin readers for some years, although the Museum has a good selection of it. This pottery is decorated, if at all, with reliefs, and has a glaze which is so often bright green that the ware is referred to as "green-glazed," even though other colors occur. With the recent addition of several pieces, the...